DronesSidewalk delivery robot
Serve sidewalk robot
Serve Robotics makes small wheeled robots that drive on sidewalks to carry food orders from restaurants to customers. Orders come through apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash. The Robot Report, 16 Dec 2025
- Evidence
- Independently reported
- Human help
- Remote operators
- Last milestone
- 11 Aug 2026
01Can I get it?
Yes, in places
- Where it works today
- Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Chicago and Fort Lauderdale (as of December 2025). The Robot Report, 16 Dec 2025
- Published price
- No published price in our sources.
- Human help
- Remote supervisors watch the robots and can take control; Serve said one was under remote control when it bumped into a Waymo in 2024. TechCrunch, 31 Dec 2024
02Track record
What has actually happened
Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.
Paying customers · sets the stage
The Robot Report, 16 Dec 2025Company-reported
Paying customers · sets the stage
DoorDash signed a deal to use Serve robots for some deliveries in Los Angeles.
03Promised vs delivered
What the maker said, and when
Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.
- Said30 May 2023
Up to 2,000 robots on Uber Eats by early 2026
Serve said it would deploy up to 2,000 robots through Uber Eats in several US cities, under a deal running to early 2026. TechCrunch, 30 May 2023
DeliveredServe said in December 2025 that it had deployed more than 2,000 sidewalk robots in the US.
04Safety and incidents
What has gone wrong
A Serve sidewalk robot and a Waymo robotaxi bumped into each other at a Los Angeles crossing. Neither was damaged and no one was in the robotaxi. TechCrunch, 31 Dec 2024
How we placed it
The rule, not an opinion
Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.
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Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
- 4
Paying customersThis robot
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
Placed by: Serve said it had put more than 2,000 sidewalk delivery robots on US streets, up from about 100 at the start of 2025 (Dec 2025); DoorDash signed a deal to use Serve robots for some deliveries in Los Angeles (Oct 2025).
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Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
- 2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
- 1
Demo only
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.
What we couldn't confirm. We could not open Serve's SEC filings, so its 2026 fleet size and revenue are not confirmed.
Sources
- 01The Robot Report, 16 Dec 2025
- 02TechCrunch, 31 Dec 2024
- 03TechCrunch, 11 Aug 2026
- 04TechCrunch, 20 Jan 2026
- 05TechCrunch, 30 May 2023
Cite this page
Robotics Verdict. “Serve sidewalk robot (Serve Robotics): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/serve-robotics. Checked 19 October 2026.
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